Presiding Officer: Drop Haditha Murder Charges October 4 2007
Congressman Jack Murtha is going to have a hard time with this.
A Marine Corp investigator, Lt Col Paul Ware is recommending that the Haditha marine murder charges be dropped and the squad leader face negligent homicide charges.
The final call belongs to Gen. James Mattis, who can either accept Ware’s recommendation of dismissal or press on. He did take his advice in the case of the other two Marines, which bodes well for Wuterich. As for Murtha, as I recall his line on this has always been that the Marines acted out of “fatigue” or “exhaustion” caused by the stress of extended tours. That’s his way of shifting blame away from the troops, whom the left is always leery about faulting, and over to Bush, who can be safely demonized. If Wuterich is convicted on negligent homicide charges Murtha will simply spin it as vindication of his theory. If he isn’t convicted, well, then Happy Jack’s going to have himself a tough month in the blogosphere, at least.
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